Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-07-14
CHARMING DRESSES.
Black and White Costumes In Various
Styles and Materials.

Black and White Costumes In Various
Styles and Materials.
Black and white dresses are very
fashionable this season, not merely
for ladies who wear light mourning.
but for those who are in colorS These
are made IN various materials-sum-
MGR silks, gros grain, cashmere and
white MORE with black lace. or else
with the new striped brOcaded silks
for skirts with lace over-dresses. A
French costume worn at afternoon
weddings and receptions is of striped
summer Bengaline in quarterback
stripes alternately black and white.
made with peplum-polonaise. the
pointed sides of this aVer-dress fall
open in front to disclose scarf-like
tablier of white China Grape edged
with deep netted fringe like that seen
on Canton Grape shawls. Another
very dressy costume has a full plain
gathered skirt in bayadere half-inch
stripes of white gros grain and black
satin, made without trimming, except
tiny jet balls like berries ut the foot.
Over this is polonaise of black China
Grape, hanging in points in front and
back, showing the striped shirt almost
to the waist, while the corsage has
the stripes set in the back, front, and
sides. A simpler dress for mornings
is of black India silk cross-baKred with
white lines, made up with corsage
that has long basque back and short
bias fronts meeting only at the waist
line. where it is fastened by one button
over a chemisette vest of exquisitely
fine linen cambria laid in small tucks
and brier-stitched. Surah silks in inch
blocks of black and white are used for
a gathered basque and short over
skirt, with a lower skirt made up of
lengthwise rows of Chantilly insertion
and grosgrain ribbon. Smaller checks
of black and white. called shepherds
check. make pretty basques shirred at
the top, and trimmed all around from
bust to hips with lengthwise rows of
black watered ribbon pointed at top
and bottom. giving cuirass effect.
There are also jetted girdles or peasant
bodices made in lengthwise bands, inn
ported to be worn with black and
white dresses, or with plain black lace
or silk dresses. Pleated skirts are
made of striped silks that have bro
caded white flowers on black grounds.
forming inch-wide stripes that alternate
with plain black gros grain stripes; the
basque and draperics are then made
of French lace over plain black silk.
Combination dresses of black silk
sursh with the skirt of large black
and white plaid surah are made with
the skirt laid in side plaits that show
to the belt on each eide and in tn.
middle of the back. The drapcry of
plain black surah has u pointed apron
made of two breadths with seam down
the middle) in curved or pointed folds
carried up in plaits to the top ccnfin-
ing the tablier to narrower space at
top than was formerly done. Appointed
wing Of black surah is then put down
the back each side Of the plated plaid
silk. or else there is a squ,,re-cornered
drapery of black on each side of these
plai's. The plain black surah basque
has . shirred vest and scarf on the
sleeves Of the plaid sarah. Other
dresses of these materials have the enc
tire skirts Of plaid surah. with plain
black sursh basque Black cashmere
is also male up as basque and over
skirt, with plaid or striped black and